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is always applied to religious unbelievers. It will be observed that the children of the
devil in this day who own and operate the machinery of Christendom hate the teaching
of the blood and of the coming. It is not sufficient now to ask these deceivers whether

they believe in the cross. They have perverted the accepted terminology of the cross
until it means something quite different to them. They speak of “the cross,” but it is
set forth under some orthodox verbiage, as exemplary instead of substitutionary, as
demonstrating Christ‟s heroism instead of His obedience, and Satan through his

children has actually succeeded in making the awful spectacle of Calvary, which is the
condemnation of humanity, into an aesthetic feature which exalts humanity! The
coming is now a clearer test. The religious unbelievers have as yet contrived no
terminology that can counterfeit the meaning of the glorious appearing of our Lord

and of His earthly reign.
The believer has only one job in this age and that is to be a witness unto Him— a
witness to His glorious Person, a witness to His completed work on the cross and in
the resurrection, a witness to the fact that the present world-ruler is a usurper, and the

system transient, and that when God‟s clock strikes He is going to return and eliminate
Satan and all who pertain to him, who refuse to accept the amnesty that the coming
King extends to them by virtue of His own work of atonement. The people in all the
nations must be given an opportunity to know of this great amnesty and pardon that is

freely granted by the King before the stroke of judgment can fall and before His
Kingdom of universal peace and righteousness can be set up.

When Christ does things they are not done halfway. He poured out His whole soul

unto death. He gave His all in making propitiation for sin. He will be just as thorough
in His work of judgment and purging as He was in His work of redemption. When
iniquity, on the one hand, comes to the full and on the other hand the number of His
elect are filled up, He will pour out the vials of His wrath. In the oftrepeated

prophecies of judgment it is declared that He will make an end of all that pertains to
this cosmic order, that is utter and complete.

In His command to His disciples to be His witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea

and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth (ever widening concentric
circles of testimony) was implied His answer to the question, “Wilt thou at this time
restore again the kingdom to Israel?” We are persuaded that His whole thought if

expressed and recorded would have been something like this: “When I establish again
the throne of David and make my kingdom universal, I must forcibly remove all
rebellious elements, from Satan down through the whole of what has been his
dominion and sphere of influence. Were I to do this now, it would demand the
destruction of many millions of the earth who have never heard of my atoning death

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